• Exp. 2027 | Ph.D., Art History, Case Western Reserve University, Mellon Foundation Fellow | Advisor: Prof. Elina Gertsman
  Dissertation Title: Materializing Sacred Language: Picturing and Performing Hebrew in Late Medieval Art
  Exam Fields: European Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1200–1500 and Architectural Sculpture from German Lands, 1200–1500
• May 2020  | M.A., Art History, Case Western Reserve University, Barbato Fellow | Advisor: Prof. Elina Gertsman
  Qualifying Paper: “‘The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau’: Reception, Deception, and the Senses in Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Haggadot”
• Dec. 2017  | B.A. summa cum laude, Foreign Languages and Literature (German); B.S. summa cum laude, Commerce and Business Administration (Economics); Minor in Art History, University of Alabama

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Bodies and Boundaries: Exploring Hybridity, Animality, and Gender in the Ambrosian Tanakh.” Ars Judaica (forthcoming 2025).
• “Sensation and Olfaction: Experiencing Image of Jacob and Esau in the Golden Haggadah.” In Scent and Sense, edited by Elina Gertsman. Convivium XII, no. 1 (2025): 100–120.
• Co-authored with Elina Gertsman. “Wrathful Rites: Performing Shefokh ḥamatkha in the Hileq and Bileq Haggadah.” In Devotion Practice & Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe, edited by Barbara Crostini. Religions 15, no. 4 (April 2024): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15040451.
• “Mourner from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria.” In Tilman Riemenschneider’s Jerome and Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture, edited by Gerhard Lutz, 120–127. Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
• “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon.” In Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Religions 11, no. 274 (June 2020): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11060274.

Select Magazine Articles & Online Essays

• “A Cabinet of Curiosities in Miniature: The Getty Model Book of Calligraphy.” Google Arts and Culture, published 1 April 2025. Link
• Co-authored with Aleia McDaniel and Elizabeth Morrison. “A Medieval Feminist Manuscript Makes Its Getty Museum Debut.” Getty News & Stories, 26 March 2025. Link
• “The J. Paul Getty Museum’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Significance.” Translated by Manami Yamamoto. In In Search of Beautiful Books: Manuscripts and Design in Medieval Europe. ideaアイデア Magazine, no. 409 (March 10, 2025): 98–103. [in English and Japanese]

Select Grants, Awards, & Scholarships

• 2024  | Friends of Art Award for the Best Overall Performance by a Ph.D. Student, CWRU Dept. of Art History and Art
• 2023  | CWRU Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavors Grant

Select Conference Papers & Symposium Organization

• 2025  | Co-organizer with Laura Feigen, Tracing Jewish Histories, London, UK, 19–20 May
• Co-organizer and moderator, Session: Jewish Women in the Middle Ages, 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8–10 May (over Zoom)
• “Bodies and Boundaries: Exploring Hybridity and Animality in a Thirteenth-century Tanakh,” Dissonance and Dysphoria, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 22 February

Curatorial Experience

• Curatorial Intern, Dept. of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum, 9 September 2024 to 29 August 2025
  Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth Morrison and Dr. Larisa Grollemond
• Curatorial Intern, Dept. of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 29 August 2022 to 20 August 2023